Honest Tokyo residents turned in record US$30 million in lost cash last year

Honest Tokyo residents turned in record US$30 million in lost cash last year

[South China Morning Post] - 03/6/2025

For the vast majority of Japanese, not handing in lost property would be ‘unthinkable’, one expert said.



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